Both Uses of
mortal
in
Measure for Measure
- Dress'd in a little brief authority,— Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence,—like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.†
Scene 2.2
- A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless, of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of mortality and desperately mortal.†
Scene 4.2 *
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death